Technology

Britain declined to write an AI law and asked existing regulators to apply principles instead. Several years on, the results are instructive.

Britain has no leading-edge chip fabs, yet holds real leverage in semiconductor design, compound materials and metrology.

Open banking did not produce a bank-slaying startup. It produced infrastructure that millions now use without knowing the name.

AI has turned data centre construction from a planning question into a national energy one. Britain’s grid was not designed for it.